1 . 假定英语课上英语老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（＼）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1.每处错误及其修改均限一词。
2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

It is a joke of the fire alarm. When Sophie was cleaning the blackboard after his class ended last night, the fire alarm went off. The alarm was sounded like the busy signal on the phone, but 1,000 times loud. Instead of leave the building, she walked about to see that the problem was. The school seemed to be empty. Then she walked by one room, but saw about seven students inside. She told everyone to leave immediate, and after almost five minutes, both of them left the building. Then a school police office arrived the school and walked around the area. He said it was a false alarm and used his key to turn down the alarm.

2 . 阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出以可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

Fireworks are beautiful and we all enjoy appreciating them. But let’s stop and think about the price that we_______for just a few minutes of_______

To begin with, the amount of money we spend on fireworks is_______ The excitement is gone_______ Let’s face it, what we really are doing is burning_______ Yet, year after year, thousands of cities and towns spend our tax dollars on fireworks displays. Those tax dollars would be put to much better_______feeding our hungry and housing our homeless.

Second, there is the matter of_______ Fireworks contain chemicals that are harmful to people and animals. Over the years, these chemicals will_______the air we breathe and the water we drink.

Third, let’s_______the trash left behind after a fireworks display. What a__________! One would probably expect that those who__________the fireworks would have the politeness to__________the trash afterwards__________, they don’t. The mess they leave behind__________the kind of attitude many Americans have toward our__________

Fourth, fireworks are__________ Some fireworks can damage your hearing, especially the fireworks used in public displays that give off a big BANG. Losing your__________is too high a price to pay.

__________ all the safety warnings, we still see injuries and deaths as a result of fireworks. Approximately 10,000 Americans are injured every year by fireworks.

In my view, all consumer fireworks should be__________ Public fireworks displays should be kept to a minimum and should be paid for through volunteer funding, not tax dollars. Finally, those people in__________of fireworks displays should be responsible for cleaning up the mess they make.

1.

A．give away

B．decide on

C．pay

D．raise

2.

A．invitation

B．hesitation

C．excitement

D．development

3.

A．limited

B．worthless

C．necessary

D．unreasonable

4.

A．in an instant

B．in a whisper

C．by accident

D．up to now

5.

A．failure

B．money

C．time

D．leather

6.

A．end

B．use

C．food

D．place

7.

A．comment

B．coincidence

C．safety

D．health

8.

A．give out

B．cut down

C．pollute

D．purify

9.

A．think about

B．pick out

C．cut off

D．slide into

10.

A．shame

B．mess

C．pity

D．wonder

11.

A．set off

B．built up

C．focused on

D．starred in

12.

A．save

B．leave

C．pick up

D．figure out

13.

A．Therefore

B．Anyhow

C．Otherwise

D．However

14.

A．changes

B．reflects

C．adopts

D．shares

15.

A．behavior

B．neighbourhood

C．society

D．environment

16.

A．beautiful

B．complex

C．bright

D．noisy

17.

A．memory

B．hearing

C．life

D．sight

18.

A．Despite

B．Besides

C．Beyond

D．Without

19.

A．encouraged

B．discussed

C．forbidden

D．produced

20.

A．charge

B．need

C．honor

D．case

3 . 根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

After you go to college, you’ll find you have to buy a lot of textbooks.    1    If you want to make ends meet and successfully make it through college, you have to find ways to save on college textbooks. Here are some of the tips that would help you cut back and manage your book expense.

    2    The first thing you want to do when you need a specific book is to go to the bookstore. But the most effective way to save money on college books is to stay away from the bookstore. While it is more convenient to purchase textbooks in the bookstore, it could cost you a lot of money.

Buy your books online. You can save a lot of money when you purchase your books online. You can buy college textbooks from Amazon, Half, CENGAGE Learning, Barnes&Noble and other websites. If you want to save money on college books, it is best to check BigWords.    3    

Rent your college textbooks. If you feel you are not going to use the book after the end of the semester, it is best to rent it instead.    4    You can check campus book rentals, bookbyete, bookrenter, chegg and ecampus. This can save you a lot of money on textbooks.

Check your university library. If you do not need the book all the time, it is best to do your research in the university library instead.    5    In this way, you can ensure the book is available when you need it. You can also use the interlibrary loan system.

A．Do not go to the bookstore.

B．You can rent books from other students.

C．College textbooks can be very expensive.

D．Buy books from second-hand bookstores.

E．Many websites and booksellers rent books.

F．You’d better order the book you need ahead of time.

G．This website will help you find promotions, discounts and other deals.

4 . Most academics would view a post at an elite university like Oxford or Harvard as the crowning achievement of a career—bringing both honour and access to better wine cellars. But scholars desire such places for reasons beyond glory. They believe perching on one of the topmost branches of the academic tree will also improve the quality of their work, by bringing them together with other geniuses with whom they can collaborate and who may help spark new ideas. This sounds reasonable. Unfortunately，as Albert Laszlo Barabasi of Northeastern University，in Boston (and also, it must be said, of Harvard), shows in a study published in Scientific Reports, it is not true.
Dr Barabasi and his team examined the careers of physicists who began publishing between 1950 and 1980 and continued to do so for at least 20 years. They ranked the impact of the institutions these people attended by counting the number of citations each institution’s papers received within five years of publication. By tracking the association of individual physicists and counting their citations in a similar way, Dr Barabasi was able to work out whether moving from a low to a high-ranking university improved a physicist’s impact. In total, he and his team analysed 2,725 careers.
They found that, though an average physicist moved once or twice during his career, moving from a low-rank university to an elite one did not increase his scientific impact. Going in the opposite direction, however, did have a small negative influence. The consequence is that elite university do not，at least as far as physicists are concerned，add value to output. That surprising conclusion is one which the authorities in countries such as Britain, who are seeking to concentrate expensive subjects such as physics in fewer, more elite institutions—partly to save money, but also to create what are seen as centers of excellence—might wish to consider.
1. What is the fundamental reason why scholars want to get a post at an elite university?

A．Their academic career can benefit from it.

B．It is an access to better wine cellars.

C．Reasons beside glory.

D．They can win honour.

2. On what basis did Dr Barabasi’s research team draw conclusions that getting a post at a higher-rank university won’t help scholastic impact?

A．His team examined the 20-year careers of physicists.

B．He came from Havard, a top-ranking university himself and knew it well.

C．Individual physicists’ citations by other authors increased within 5 years.

D．They ranked the physicists’ institutions according to citations to these universities’ paper.

3. Which of the following is true of Dr Barabasi’s research?

A．It proved that a post at an elite university helps academics.

B．It began in 1950 and ended in 1980.

C．It calculated the citations of the physicists’ institutions.

D．It is based on a lot more than 2,000 scholars of various fields.

5 . Many people don't realize the importance of music education in the schools today. A new study showed, however, music education is extremely important.
In college, music education is one of the largest programs. Teachers have to learn general education materials and techniques. They must learn to play every instrument; they must learn music history and music theory; they must learn instrument repair and teaching methods; they must learn conducting and so much more. At the same time, much of our culture and tradition is absorbed in music.
Music plays a very important role in our education.
Music helps with math and science. Students learn to count, and how to multiply and divide. Students also use science to help them discover what sounds good together and what doesn’t. Students also need science to understand something called the “overtone series", which is about how music is produced by vibration（颤动）and why.
Students learn a lot about languages through music．Many songs are written in other languages, including ancient ones. Students must learn to translate these works to understand what they are singing about. A song is likely to be a famous short work set to music; so students are exposed to that very often while singing.
Students learn a huge amount of cooperation （协作）of body parts through music, so parts of the body can work better together. Students must use motor（肌肉运动的）skills in order to play an instrument. Singers and wind（管乐器）players must learn breath control and be in good shape to play.
Students learn about art. Some famous pieces were written about important pieces of art, and students learn about the artists and styles as they're playing the music.
Music education also brings higher thinking to our children. It allows them to think about complex patterns. Students have to be aware of what every other musician does at every time. In that way, it develops cooperation, as well. They tend to develop more ability for learning.
As one can see, music is very important to education.
1. What can we infer about learning music in college?

A．It is an easy task without much effort.

B．It attracts more and more people to learn.

C．It is such a challenging job to finish

D．It has no value to our future life.

2. Music benefits us a lot in many ways except for_______.

A．making us a scientist later.

B．improving language ability

C．bettering cooperation of body parts.

D．making us think more about how to learn well

3. The underlined word “that” in Para. 5 refers to “_________”

A．the music

B．the work

C．the culture

D．the language

4. What can we know from the passage?

A．A good achievement of science is vital to music learning.

B．Learning music to a higher level on one’s own is impossible

C．People have long known the importance of music to our growth.

D．Music has benefits to the all—around development of human beings.

6 . Most people agree that eating healthy food is important. But sometimes making good food choices can be difficult. Now, there are apps that can help people learn about the food they eat to improve their health and their dining out experience.
Open Table app
Open Table app helps people choose restaurants when they want to go out to eat. It is a free service that shows users restaurant available based on where and when they want to dine. It gives users points when they make reservations(预定), which can add up to discounts on restaurant visits.
Max McCalman’s Cheese & Wine Pairing app
Wine and cheese can be a great combination. But which wines go best with which cheeses? Max McCalman’s Cheese & Wine Pairing app can help. It provides information about hundreds of different cheeses and suggests wines to pair with each. Max McCalman’s Cheese & Wine Pairing app is free.
HappyCow app
Vegetarians do not eat animal meat. Vegans do not eat any animal products. The HappyCow app is made for both groups. Users can search for vegetarian-vegan restaurants and stores around the world.
LocalEats app
Restaurant chains, like McDonalds, can be found almost anywhere a person might travel. But sometimes travelers want to eat like locals. The LocalEats app is designed for that. It can help you find local restaurants in major cities in the US and in other countries. It costs about a dollar.
Where Chefs Eat app
“Where Chefs Eat” is a 975-page book. Most people would not want to carry that around. But there is a much lighter app version of the same name for just $15. Six hundred chefs provide information on 3,000 restaurants around the world on the Where Chefs Eat app.
1. What do the first two apps have in common?

A．They are both free of charge.

B．Discounts are provided on both.

C．Best wines can be reserved on both

D．They tell you where to have the best food.

2. Who is Happycow app probably designed for?

A．Friends drinking wines together.

B．Chefs enjoying meat very much.

C．People who want to go on a diet.

D．Those often eating in a restaurant.

3. Where can we most likely see the text?

A．On a tourism guide.

B．In a cellphone application introduction

C．In a students’ textbook

D．On a scientific discovery TV program

4. Why on earth did the writer make this text?

A．To help fatties to lose some weight.

B．To bring us some healthy eating habits.

C．To make some money by advertising apps.

D．To introduce some useful apps to food lovers.

7 . D
Their cheery song brightens many a winter's day. But robins are in danger of wearing themselves out by singing too much. Robins are singing all night一as well as during the day, British-based researchers say.
David Dominoni, of Glasgow University, said that light from street lamps, take away signs and homes is affecting the birds' biological clocks, leading to them being wide awake when they should be asleep.
Dr Dominoni, who is putting cameras inside nesting boxes to track sleeping patterns, said lack of sleep could put the birds’ health at risk. His study shows that when robins are exposed to light at night in the lab, it leads to some genes being active             at the wrong time of day. And the more birds are exposed to light, the more active they are at night.
He told people at a conference, "There have been a couple of studies suggesting they are increasing their song output at night and during the day they are still singing. Singing is a costly behaviour and it takes energy. So by increasing their song             output, there might be some costs of energy."
And it is not just robins that are being kept awake by artificial light. Blackbirds and seagulls are also being more nocturnal. Dr Dominoni said, "In Glasgow where I live, gulls are a serious problem. I have people coming to me saying `You are the bird expert. Can you help us kill these gulls?'.During the breeding(繁殖)season, between April and June, they are very active at night and very noisy and people can't sleep."
Although Dr Dominoni has only studied light pollution, other research concluded that robins living in noisy cities have started to sing at night to make themselves heard over loud noise.
However, some birds thrive(兴旺)in noisy environments. A study from California Polytechnic University found more hummingbirds in areas with heavy industrial machinery. It is thought that they are capitalising on their predators(天敌)fleeing to quieter             areas.
1. According to Dr Dominoni's study, what cause robins to sing so much?

A．The breeding season.

B．The light in modern life

C．The dangerous environment.

D．The noise from heavy machinery.

2. What is the researchers' concern over the increase of birds' song output?

A．The environment might be polluted.

B．The birds' health might be damaged.

C．The industry cost might be increased.

D．The people's hearing might be affected.

3. What does the underlined word "nocturnal" in Paragraph 5 mean?

A．Active at night.	B．Inactive at night.
C．Active during the day.	D．Inactive during the day.

4. Why do some birds thrive in noisy environments?

A．Because there are fewer dangers.

B．Because there is more food to eat.

C．Because there is less light pollution

D．Because there are more places to take shelter.

8 .         People have been painting pictures for at least 30,000 years. The earliest pictures were painted by people who hunted animals. They used to paint pictures of the animals they wanted to catch and kill. Pictures of this kind have been found on the walls of caves in France and Spain. No one knows why they were painted there. Perhaps the painters thought that their pictures would help them to catch these animals. Or perhaps human beings have always wanted to tell stories in pictures.

About 5,000 years ago, the Egyptians and other people in the Near East began to use pictures as kind of writing. They drew simple pictures or signs to represent things and ideas, and also to represent the sounds of their language. The signs these people used became a kind of alphabet.

       The Egyptians used to record information and to tell stories by putting picture-writing and pictures together. When an important person died, scenes and stories from his life were painted and carved on the walls of the place where he was buried. Some of these pictures are like modern comic strip stories. It has been said that Egypt is the home of the comic strip. But, for the Egyptians, pictures still had magic power. So they did not try to make their way of writing simple. The ordinary people could not understand it.

By the year 1,000 BC, people who lived in the area around the Mediterranean Sea had developed a simpler system of writing. The signs they used were very easy to write, and there were fewer of them than in the Egyptian system. This was because each sign, or letter, represented only one sound in their language. The Greeks developed this system and formed the letters of the Greek alphabet. The Romans copied the idea, and the Roman alphabet is now used all over the world.

These days, we can write down a story, or record information, without using pictures. But we still need pictures of all kinds: drawing, photographs, signs and diagrams. We find them everywhere: in books and newspapers, in the street, and on the walls of the places where we live and work. Pictures help us to understand and remember things more easily, and they can make a story much more interesting.

1. Pictures of animals were painted on the walls of caves in France and Spain because ______.

A．the hunters wanted to see the pictures

B．the painters were animal lovers

C．the painters wanted to show imagination

D．the pictures were thought to be helpful

2. The Greek alphabet was simpler than the Egyptian system for all the following reasons EXCEPT that _______.

A．the former was easy to write	B．there were fewer signs in the former
C．the former was easy to pronounce	D．each sign stood for only one sound

3. Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A．The Egyptian signs later became a particular alphabet.

B．The Egyptians liked to write comic-strip stories.

C．The Roman alphabet was developed from the Egyptian one.

D．The Greeks copied their writing system from the Egyptians.

4. In the last paragraph, the author thinks that pictures ___________.

A．should be made comprehensible	B．should be made interesting
C．are of much use in our life	D．have disappeared from our life

9 . How can you expect him to make any improvement ________ you never give him an opportunity to have a try?

A．unless

B．when

C．until

D．while

10 . I can guess you were in a hurry. You ______ your sweater inside out.

A．had worn	B．wore
C．were wearing	D．are wearing